Scientific American Magazine Vol 122 Issue 18

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 122, Issue 18

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Features

Can Duplex Craft Speed Up Transportation?, New York's Greatest Handicap and more

Robert G. Skerrett

The Ingenuity of the Watchmaker

Some of the Methods and Tools That Make This Trade Rank as a Profession

Robert F. Nattan

Exploiting the Inventor--IV

A Few of the Good Old Stand-Bys Employed in the Promotion of Stock Frauds Based on "Inventions"

C. H. Claudy'

Subduing the Boll Weevil

At Last a Successful Means of Dealing with the Worst Present Mexico Ever Made Us.

George H. Dacy

Development of American Clays

S. R. Winters

The House on the Hill with Front Door in the Valley

John L. Von Blon

Annealing with Gas

The Ways, Means and Results of This Often-Mentioned Process

W. A. Ehlers

What Europe is Doing in Aviation--Americans, Please Take Notice!

Erie A. Dime

Air Bags for the Airplane that Lands on Water

George Gaulois

The Backbone of Naval Power

British Confidence in the Battleship as Exemplified in the "Hood"

Hector C. Bywater

Keeping the Construction Laborer Satisfied

Allen P Child

The Fuel Case of Coke vs. Coal

Henry Townsend

The Steamship Pier Problem

Considerations Which Governed the Design of the Twelve New Staten Island Piers

The Automatic Substation from an Economic Standpoint

Departments

Correspondence - May 1, 1920

Inventions New and Interesting - May 1, 1920

Recently Patented Inventions - May 1, 1920